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the e.u. praises north korea's announcement that it will halt its nuclear program as asian countries welcomed the move with caution. no doubt this extremely hard working society everyone striving for the kind of the state and we'll bring you the best of diplomatic editor james bays is special reports from inside north korea. hello i'm still robin you're watching al-jazeera live the headquarters here in doha also coming up palestinians again demand an international investigation after more protesters are killed by israeli fire along the gaza border. also guests arrive for the funeral of the former first lady of the u.s. barbara bush these are live pictures coming from houston texas.

welcome to the program the e.u. and the united kingdom are calling north korea's move to stop all nuclear and missile tests a positive step forward the announcement comes ahead of planned summits with south korea and the united states and some world leaders however still remain skeptical kathy novak reports from south korea's capital. north korea regularly tested increasingly threatening ballistic missiles last year including weapons that could have the range to hit the united states in september it conducted its most powerful nuclear bomb test now north korea says those tests are over. she will discontinue u.k. testing in. intercontinental ballistic rocket test firing from april twenty fifth. the north a new contest ground of the d.p. r. k.

one also be dismantled to transparently the discontinuance. it's welcome news for the us president who's planning to meet north korea's leader kim jong un within weeks donald trump tweeted north korea has agreed to suspend all nuclear tests and close up a major test site this is very good news for north korea and the world big progress look forward to our summit state media says kim jong un made the announcement as he chaired a meeting of the workers' party central committee a gathering to rubber stamp the supreme leader's decisions it was at a similar meeting five years ago that kim unveiled his signature policy to prioritize the development of nuclear weapons and the economy the message from the leader now is that weapons program development is complete and the focus will shift to the economy currently under pressure from a u.s. led sanctions campaign would you call kim jong un care

a fight the now that the t.p.r. case position as a wall of level politico ideological and military power has been successfully established it is the strategic line of the workers' party to concentrate all efforts of the whole party and country on the socialist economic construction kim is apparently seeking to cement his position on the world stage following his meeting in beijing last month with china's president xi jinping talks with cia director mike pompei o in pyongyang and ahead of a historic summit with south korea's president monday and on friday south korea welcomed the announcement calling north korea's decision meaningful progress for the denuclearization of the korean peninsula the president's office said it will contribute to creating a positive environment for the success of the upcoming intercourse rian and u.s. north korea summits. china has also welcomed the announcement large appends prime minister it was more cautious. never thought of north korea's announcement is

forward motion that i'd like to welcome but what's important is that this motion leads to a complete verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of north korea's nuclear missile programs north korea's promise to stop weapons testing didn't go that far it pledged to never use nuclear weapons unless there are nuclear threats and you can hear provocations against it cathy know that al-jazeera seoul. korea is governing ideology is called to check al-jazeera is diplomatic editor james bays has been given rare access to the capital to see the ideology of self-reliance in action. welcome to pyongyang certainly the cleanest most orderly and probably the most controlled place i've ever visited. rush hour in the city yet the traffic is like the roads aquash although all of them a little unfair. doubt

this extremely hardworking society everyone striving for the good of the state says this is how workers essential. revolutionary slogans flags and drums. in this city the portraits in the statues tell the story of this isolated nation run by three men all from one family. the grandfather and the country's founder kim il sung the father kim jong il. and the son the current leader kim jong un who told he's too modest to have mosaics made of him but he's everywhere on the state controlled media on television and in the newspapers. in the center of the city the tallest landmark the jew che tower jew chair your self-reliance is the governing principle of this nation of twenty five million

people our guide explained it's not about self-reliance of the individual but instead that individual koreans must do all they can to make then mation self-reliant we are holding the self-reliance. opponent if there were no lying in bed and the poet nation the deaf the main point and the nuclear weapons of course yes we made the nuclear weapon by our own effort baron technique def the main point after taking. for years north koreans have been told the nuclear program is something that will keep their country strong and that the us is their mortal enemy both the messages that will now need modification as talks approach under some of the stiffest international sanctions ever imposed north koreans say ju che or self-reliance is the answer. in the subway trains inherited from east

germany a growing old a handful of new carriages were produced in north korea we were told this seat was designed by kim jong un himself. it seems the leader takes direct interest in many areas of national life he made a visit to the main chute factory at the plant producing the korean national dish kimchi made of pickled vegetables we were told the air conditioning system was supervised by the supreme leader and as an old people's home we were told he was the architect of this stack case such benevolence is of course matched by total respect kim jong un has never granted an audience to the international media he's never given an interview i got about as close as an outsider can get to him i was attending a performance of a visiting chinese ballet company in pyongyang when supreme leader kim entered the

theater and the crowd clapped continuously a standing ovation with cries of horror a ray a ray it only stopped when he himself signaled with his hands james phase al-jazeera pyongyang. well iran's president says the country's atomic energy body is ready with expected and unexpected actions if the u.s. pulls out of the nuclear agreement rouhani made the comments on state television but did not elaborate on what that to mean that u.s. president donald trump has hinted about leaving the agreement next month european politicians have been lobbying the u.s. not to abandon the deal iran signed the multinational agreement in twenty fifteen to curb its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions being lifted fighters in a rebel held area near syria's capital have agreed to lay down their weapons and leave us part of another evacuation deal brokered by russia syrian state television

has shown buses carrying fighters and their families leaving color mourn which is about forty kilometers from damascus they'll be taken to rebel held areas in northern syria and syria's president bashar assad backed by russia and iran is seeking to recover control of the last pockets of rebel territory around damascus earlier rebels reportedly agreed to withdraw from an area in the city's south which includes a palestinian refugee camp the areas being divided between those rebels highlighted here in green and ice all showed in black while the rebels are said to be moving out there's no word yet on what i saw intend to do meanwhile the syrian regime continues to battle isel fighters in the south of damascus the government is attempting to retake the syrian capital and its verdict areas for the first time since the war began in two thousand and eleven. palestine's ambassador to the united nations is calling for an independent investigation into israel's use of force against protesters four palestinians including

a fifteen year old boy were killed by israeli gunfire on a fourth consecutive friday of demonstrations along the gaza border at least thirty nine people have now died in four weeks of protests as palestinians call for the right to return to the ancestral lands from gaza bernard smith reports. they've become a feature of the weekly palestinian confrontations with israel's military this friday the wind was with the protesters as clouds of smoke from burning tires drifted over israeli positions. but it's not enough to stop israel snipers and volleys of tear gas. others who you might think would be put off after previous experiences have instead come back for more muscle to show that i don't care about the injury even if i lose my legs this will not stop me coming back what happened here won't people up and reminded them about talk or we've come here to

get our right of return on a lot of states this march but. in this with giving something another day. i'm here to show my enthusiasm and to inspire the young guys to continue their struggle. for. the as he does every week hamas is leading garza yassin was visited the protests a prime target for israeli snipers he'd have been easily spotted by the drones above but was protected by the crowds be love. this friday the campers move three hundred meters closer to israel ambition is that when these protests climax on may the fifteenth these towns will be the border between gaza and israel but after four weeks now demonstrations there's been nothing in the way of concessions from the israelis that would improve the daily life of palestinians living in gaza. burnitz

with al-jazeera scars. at least five people are dead and several more missing after two dragon boats capsized in southern china state television says around sixty people fell into the water in the accident and other boats have been practicing ahead of a race on saturday the cause is not yet known but the two organizers have been detained still ahead here on al-jazeera a crowded classroom the struggles of yemeni women trying to get an education in rural parts of the war torn country. and we meet the kenyan cyclists speeding to become the first african rider to tackle an extreme race across siberia to stay with us here on out yourself.

hello the rain is back in china again developing quite nicely along the yangtze valley and of course there is rather why do that from shanghai west for the next day or so expect attempted to be suppressed as the rain falls very heavily spreading down towards but not reaching hong kong which remains humid and thirty degrees the heaviest rain the last couple days has been down in the southwest corner but that was well two showers it's now a lot of dry picture is through into china as well but the daily showers are deforming now on the eastern side of india and bangladesh to cabo shock even again these deadly thunderstorms there not leaving a huge amount of rain and i would fifty to seventy five but which is typically little less not of in here show pradesh which is where it's been wet as well but far from passing showers here and maybe downing carolyn's frank it's a dry picture it's a picture of rising building heat supreme monsoon he forced to not go down he's cool down recently because a change in the wind direction bit of cloud but i think by choose to be back up to forty even in delhi on the raby in berlin still we forecast

a bit of an increase in the breeze that will likely bring dust out of the empty quarter on the eastern side of saudi through bahrain encounter that most likely i think during sunday. rewind returns with a new series i can't bring your people back alive i'm sorry i'm brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries they has been a number of reforms put in place since the program was filmed rewind begins with mohammed at eight am when i was in the liberal i was the top of the class and. like any other student i was very fortunate to be awarded another scholarship rewind on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera times a whole rahman a reminder of our top stories north korea says it's stopping all nuclear bomb and missile tests to pursue peace and economic growth instead the e.u. is calling it a positive move forward the announcement comes ahead of planned summits with south korea and the united states fighters in a rebel held area near syria's capital have agreed to lay down their weapons and leave as part of another evacuation deal brokered by russia. and palestine's ambassador to the united nations is calling for an independent investigation into israel's use of force against protesters after four were killed in the latest dance of border protests. the family of

a palestinian engineer living in malaysia says he's being killed by the israeli intelligence agency mossad palestinian media is reporting that for the. was ambushed and shot near a mosque two motorcyclists fled the scene the university of kuala lumpur tweeted condolences for the senior lecturer hamas says he was a party member. ronen bergman is an author of the forthcoming mossad history rise and kill first he joins me now from lima in peru via skype good to have you with us on the program and thank you for your time i mean what do we know about this individual that's apparently connected to hamas. who. is really intelligent. you know so is. is a luminous on the. hamas and does that mean that. while the family accuse obviously. being behind this it's going to be very

difficult to prove that especially when it's on the foreign soil. must clearly seem to have lost mr bergman we'll try and get back to him as we started out interview will join him later in the program or be well let's move on now to the funeral of the former u.s. first lady barbara bush and that's about to begin in their hometown of houston in texas the these are live pictures coming from st martin's church there where we expect a very large turnout of past presidents first ladies and civil society leaders to join some fifteen hundred guests at the private ceremony. and monks that will be bracken michelle obama there are bill and hillary clinton melania trump the current president's wife let's join our correspondent jake gray

he's there joins us live jay really it is a who's who both politically and of civil society to come and pay tribute to one of the most modest and humble first ladies. yeah no you're absolutely right as you talk about fifteen hundred people expected as part of this invitation only funeral after what's been a full week of public memorial to your thousands turning out to honor the former first lady barbara bush it's been amazing to see just so many people so in tune with barbara bush so many who felt like they knew her though many had never met her and then you've got this crowd today many who have spent a lot of important time with barbara bush coming to say their final goodbye here today it's going to be a straightforward episcopal service and those who know barbara bush will understand that she had a big part in planning out this funeral herself before her passing we know that jeb

bush her son the former florida governor will be one of the eulogist along with a woman she called her friend and confidant susan baker and a historian will also be one to speak john meacham her granddaughters will be ushers at the service today and a few of those granddaughters will also speak during the service and then you've got her grandsons who will be pall bearers here she will be interned she will be buried a few. hours away rather in college station texas on the grounds of the george bush presidential library that's at texas a and m. university and of course you know she was the only woman who sold by husband on a sudden become president but it was really literacy and the role she played in the civil rights movement that had a huge impact on her life and the way it shaped her as a woman full the position that she was going to have. to push the agenda across and the time she had both as the wife of the vice president and then the wife of the

president himself. yeah absolutely this is a woman who did lead a life of giving she was someone who was very attached to her causes literacy as you talked about very important to the first lady and something she championed up until she could no longer do that she was involved in civil rights and in fact was the first vice with the first first lady to ever have a chief of staff that was african-american she insisted that that be the case we know that she spent her summers in kennebunkport in the early days when she would go there and stay in a hotel with her children she went the first time and there was a hotel that wouldn't allow african-americans in the hotel she refused to stay there and found a place that would allow african-americans to stay so that's something that was very close to or hard and she also of course raised money for cancer research after you losing her young daughter three years old to look he mia that was something

that was very important to her you know that she and her husband after he left office raised a billion dollars for charity it's just amazing the work that they have done since leaving the white house for charity for the moment i have to leave it there jay gray is and b. she's correspondent in texas and thanks for joining us from houston jay. let's head back to our top story the palestinian engineer back to was bashed and shot near a mosque in malaysia run and bergman is the author of the forthcoming mossad history rise and kill fast it's good to be back in with us via skype from lima sorry we were. unceremoniously cut off from you just a moment ago just recapping really that the family are accusing the israeli intelligence services for his death does he actually fit the profile of the type of now that mossad would want to go after definitely. the. his be clear what i could see.

as war against could be defined as war against any attempt of hamas to establish r. and d. units outside of gaza. and the west being disproportionately notions. of which is part of the military brigade of hamas their division is. simply people recruiting people is there a look at the late mr but dodge was recruited already back in palestine back in gaza but and then sent to kuala lumpur but some of them are recruited outside of it because rock this is in order to create units or nucleus of know how in order to develop sophisticated armory drones submarines in

missiles or hamas to be. produced inside gaza open just outside of gaza in smuggled into gaza in order to upgrade hamas' military capabilities against israel in the sun as this i don't to launch a wall trying to kill or destroy these units in the earliest days possible while you clearly describe what massada what israel would want to do the government itself in tel aviv keeps a very tight lipped about these issues though there is historical precedent solve them carrying out assassinations beyond the borders of either the occupied territories or even israel. yes israel is the policy does not take responsibility deny nor acknowledge the involvement in extra judicial targeted killing. but we can recall a recent this is

a nation that happened in december of two thousand and sixteen in tunis when the home of there was a lottery who is also was also a member of the same unit of come up and was in charge and development of. the submarine unmanned submarine and drugs for hamas was killed and then hamas in the same way you will be involved in that but we should not expect any kind of visual response of claim of responsibility from israel while we have to leave it that for the moment has been a pleasure speaking to iran and back when that joining us from lima in peru thank you. well at least twenty civilians have been killed by a saudi led coalition air strike in yemen the other strikes told to the village in the western district of tears yemen has been locked in a three year war between iranian backed toothy rebels on the saudi led military

coalition which supports the government of president of the rebel one sort had the well also and there's a makeshift school run by a remarkable survivor of the three year long civil war is teaching a fortunate few women how to read and write but he'll hold reports. they make this journey most days a long winding sometimes dangerous parts this is a remote area whist of the city of tire yes it's also one of the battle grounds of human civil war and with these women must go to reach the only place where they can learn. but. we walk long distances past villages and valleys to get here we learn because we did not have education and the list of a name that but only after we didn't know any of the alphabets besides to our teacher now we can read and write and we can also teach our children for some of these women this is the first time there put a pin to paper grandmothers mothers young women learning what most children might

be taught in their food all second year of school and so hungry to learn that on this particular day more than forty women were crammed into a small building it's part of a media elka ladies' home she's the teacher and the creator of this makeshift education center as your own cost and in her own time she's taught dozens of women to read and write in math at the fair the education of women in the countryside is very low and i've made it my job to try to change that there is no support from anyone i wish that all sisters anyone who is educated might do their bit to educate women and girls in rural areas a few children and rule. have made it to school in the last three years of human civil war i do see rebels control much of the north including the capital sunday. there presently gainst government forces fighting in support of exiled president

a bit up to months or hardy and are backed by airstrikes from a saudi lead coalition of mainly arab states the power base lies in the south including the strategically important port city of aden the province of to east with these women live lies right in the middle. of the goddess and most of the schools are closed now and we are in a remote area in this war so it occasion is a positive thing for women and stability widespread poverty and unemployment affect all the women here l.k. lady also teaches skills that have enabled students to generate their own income things like knitting and sewing for these women knowledge really is power media on one hand down to zero. a kenyan cyclist is aiming to make history later this year as the first african to compete in the trans-siberian cycle race that's

an extreme one thousand kilometer event from moscow to vladivostok he's training in the town of not all kids southwest in kenya and his story is already one of achievement and survival i'm doing for more on what we're training for the world's toughest and most extreme bicycle race trying to get an extreme. on the fossil. record of her for being then. i want to a lot i can just define myself as i mean in a survival. other age of like. several days ago by. then again my dad when i was of several minds made it was it a washing the kind he drove on me. and then here king me being short there's always trying to help my dad i was shot four times the force buying the shut me up just then the second time they showed me their shoulder two more bullets were lodged in my chest i'm lucky that they didn't hit my spinal cord you know even getting to an

extent of being taken to the mortuary before believing that i was dead and i have a kid more that means almost over and there was a reason especially pop us why i survived all that i have to help the less privileged because he's my responsibility relieved that some of them have to be changed and they believe if i go to bed at night having not changed the level boss on or inspired somebody positively then i wish that maybe so if i don't have done inspire people then i'm nothing i can again i can be proud that i'm successful i can be successful at all. i'm putting myself through cause i want to confront myself but i'm not surviving them but we know. i'm a hero just as my dad told me when you're just about to die and. believing that or my hero isn't enough i have to prove it and that's what i have to do because.

you're watching i'll just say i'm still robin these are all top news stories north korea says it's stopping all nuclear bomb and missile tests to pursue peace and economic growth instead the e.u. and the u.k. are calling it leave a positive one the announcement precedes planned summits with south korea and the u.s. . so we have to judge chip we will discontinue nuclear testing and intercontinental ballistic rocket test firings from april twenty first the northern nuclear test ground of the d.p. r. k. will also be dismantled to transparently guarantee the discontinuance of nuclear testing that this continuance of the nuclear test is an important process for the worldwide disarmament and the t.p.r. cable joint international desire and efforts for a total halt to nuclear testing the d.p. r. k. will never use nuclear weapons nor transfer them or nuclear technology under any circumstances unless there is a nuclear threat or provocation against the d.p. r. k. the president of iran says its atomic energy body is ready with expected and unexpected

actions if the u.s. withdraws from the iran nuclear deal hassan rouhani didn't elaborate on what that meant or what it may mean but donald trump has hinted at withdrawing from the nuclear deal next month's fighters in a rebel held area near syria's capital are leaving under an evacuation deal brokered by russia syrian state television is showing buses with fighters and their families travelling to northern syria palestine's un ambassador is calling for an independent investigation into israel's use of force of protesters for palestinians including a fifteen year old boy who were killed by israeli gunfire in another day of demonstrations on gaza's border. the family of the palestinian engineer living in malaysia says he's been killed by the israeli intelligence agency mossad palestinian media's reporting that fed the batch will was ambushed and shot near a mosque two motorcyclists fled the scene the university of kuala lumpur tweeted

condolences for the senior lecturer and must says he was a party member. the funeral for former first us lady barbara bush is about to begin now these are pictures taken just a short time ago of some of the arrivals at st martin's church in houston texas among the guests are barack and michelle obama bill and hillary clinton and trump those were the headlights and we'll be back with more news in half an hour next it's rewind do stay with us. thank. you stand the differences. and the similarities and cultures across the world. al-jazeera.